#Brain

"No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think."

"The decision to empty my mind was a no-brainer."

"The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning."

"I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift."

"Though my skull is the size of a soup bowl, everything in the universe—and more—can fit inside my imagination. And guess what? My imagination tastes like chicken noodle soup."

"If football players wanted to protect their brains from injury they’d wear astronaut helmets. After all, astronauts have massive IQ’s, so wearing their protective headgear seems like a smart choice."

"Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain."

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit."

"The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen."

"To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future."

"How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all."

"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."

"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."

"...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful,"it will be more likely to be recalled in the future."

"I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly."

"My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving."

"Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty."

"I love when my cat crushes his forehead into mine like my skull is an empty beer can. But it’s not—there’s still a sip left."